DBMS > atoti vs. dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. PouchDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

atoti.io

www.dbase.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

ActiveViam

Asthon Tate

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1979

2008

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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